The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-04-07
THE CIVIL SERVICE REFORM REPORT
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PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Miss Alice r. Jordan, who took the degree
Of LID. at the Yale Law School last June,
has just been admitted to practice in the Su-
perior Court of Michigan.
A st. Louis dry goods clerk was nearly
paralyzed the other day when stately wom-
an, apparently from Boston, entered the
store and inquired for ''dignifers." The
clerk started to pilot her to the proper coun
ter, net knowing whittier he went and at
length mustered courage to ask her what
kind of dignifers she referred to. With a
look of cultured scorn she calculated, "hus-
ties, sir"
Col w. II. Martin. the successor in the
House of the veteran Judge Reagan of Tex
as, is described as tall, angular and thin as
rail, with tuft of hair ON his chin, nous
tache growing up to his nose, and enormous
hands. His voice is loud and his gestures
are awkward His trousers never fit him,
and he wears butternut-colored shirt. He
is great talker. He has lived all his life in
the pine woods and among the rampant
steers of Eastern Texas.
There is project under way for charging
the present cramped quarters of the Wom-
ans Medical College of the New York In
Urinary. The school was originated by DR..
Elizabeth Blackwell, sister of the present
Dean, twenty years ago, and was the first
medical school for women in the country.
The course of study is thorough and COM
plete, and the small class of trained physi-
clans it is able to send out each year would
probably be greatly increased by more COM
modious quarters.
The Pail Mall Gazette lately took popu
lar vote for members of an English acade-
my of 40. The first three on the list chosen
were Mr.. Gladstone, Lord Tennyson and
MI Matthew Arnold, followed by Professor
Huxley, Herbert Spencer and John Ruskin.
Robert Browning was eighth. Mr.. Swim
burne 18th and Lord Salisbury 18th, Henry
Irving, 9th, was the only actor. Wilkie Col
Inns was 10Th, and the last three were Bishop
Stubbs, Cardinal Manning and Prof. Seely.
Among those not in the first 40 may be noted
Edwin Arnold, Lord Coleridge, Lord Lytton,
Sir j. E. Millais, Messrs Gilbert and Sulli-
van, Robert Buchanan, George Macdonald,
A. w. Kinglake, Francis Turner Palgraye.
DR.. Martineau, Sir George Trevelyan and
Sir William Thomson.
Some curious incidents connected with the
terrible accident at Roslndale are related by
the Boston Post. In one case young girl
who had lately obtained a situation in q Bos-
ton shop, was prevented from taking the ILL
fated train by her mothers delay in getting
her lunch ready. When she had gone short
distance toward the station, she saw the cars
moving off, and she came back in tears, fear
ing that by losing the train she would lose
her place.. In the very next house lived a
man who is the fortunate owner, as it hap
pened, of vicious cow On the morning of
the accident he reached the station just too
late Tor the doomed train, having been de-
layed by the cows bad conduct while in pro-
cess Of milking. He was SO epraged that he
took the trouble to go back TO his house and
beat the dumb animal-a piece of wrong
such cases, but these two were reported on
good authority One hesitates to believe
that such escapes are mere matters of chance,
and that even man who would beat his
cow latter the event" was saved by acct
dent